Young Shakespeare s Young Hamlet
History of Text Technologies, developed in conjunction with an interdisciplinary research program at Florida State University, is dedicated to new scholarship and theory in the history of books and, more generally, the transformation of sign systems into engineered objects. This exciting new series moves from the analysis of texts as material objects to the analysis of texts as material agents. It is committed to the recognition that texts cannot be separated from the various and changing technologies through which they are created. Included are analytic bibliography, paleography and epigraphy, history of authorship, history of reading, study of manuscript and print culture, and history of media. Rather than being solely a historical overview, this series seeks out scholarship that provides a frame for understanding the consequences of both globalism and technology in the circulation of texts, ideas, and human culture. For more on the series, see the History of Text Technologies website at http://hott.fsu.edu. Series Editors Gary Taylor is George Matthew Edgar Professor of English and the founding director of the History of Text Technologies program at Florida State University. A.E.B. Coldiron is Professor of English, and Courtesy Professor of French, at Florida State University. Francois Dupuigrenet Desroussilles is Professor of Religion at Florida State University. Published Volumes in Series Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany: New Worlds in Print Culture Stephanie Leitch Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England Francis X. Connor Shakespeare and the Imprints of Performance J. Gavin Paul Young Shakespeare s Young Hamlet: Print, Piracy, and Performance Terri Bourus
Young Shakespeare s Young Hamlet Print, Piracy, and Performance Terri Bourus
young shakespeare s young hamlet Copyright Terri Bourus, 2014. All rights reserved. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN in the United States a division of St. Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978 1 137 46561 0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: October 2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Contents List of Illustrations ix The History of Text Technologies: General Editor s Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Prologue: Questions 1 1 Piratical Publishers? 11 2 Piratical Actors? 35 3 Piratical Reporters? 69 4 How Old Is Young? 101 5 Young Shakespeare? 137 6 Revising Hamlet? 181 Epilogue: Conclusions and Rebeginnings 209 Notes 213 Works Cited 265 Index 281
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